Introduction: Achieving Bliss / Enda Duffy -- Criticism. The well-tempered story: experiments with sound in 'The man without a temperament' / Richard Cappuccio ; Refrigeration, 'Bliss' and the modernist world order of imperial culture / Enda Duffy...
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Introduction: Achieving Bliss / Enda Duffy -- Criticism. The well-tempered story: experiments with sound in 'The man without a temperament' / Richard Cappuccio ; Refrigeration, 'Bliss' and the modernist world order of imperial culture / Enda Duffy and Maurizia Boscagli ; The 'little savage from New Zealand' in 'Bliss' / Marilyn Reizbaum ; Sublimity and Mansfield's 'subjective correlatives' in 'Bliss' / Gaurav Majumdar ; 'We were a nothingness shot with gleams of what might be. But no more': Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf and the Queer Sublime / Eleri Anona Watson ; Seeking blissful ignorance: Katherine Mansfield's child protagonists in 'Prelude' and 'Sun and Moon' / Marlene Andresen ; Of 'Trust' and 'Mistrust': reading the mind of a predator in 'The Little Governess' / Argha Kumar Banerjee -- A new story. A mysterious lost story by Katherine Mansfield / Martin Griffiths ; 'The Thawing of Anthony Wynscombe' / Katherine R. Mansfield -- Creative writing. Short story: Paula Morris: 'Mari' ; Poetry -- Critical miscellany. A unique perspective: Terry Stringer's sculpted portraits of Katherine Mansfield / Robin Woodward ; Such 'rich unlawful gold': Mansfield's semiotic manœuvres in 'An Indiscreet Journey' / Janet M. Wilson -- Review essay. Rhythm, laughter and spiritualism: Katherine Mansfield and the Modernist search for meaning / Lee Garver. This book celebrates the centennial of Bliss's publication by offering new readings of some of Mansfield's most well-known stories